Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-03
WELCOME.
Reception rendered Rev. Hewitt and His Wife
at the Presbyterian Church Last
Evening.


| at the Presbyterian Church Last
Evening.
Last evening reception was given Rev
Hewitt and wife at the Presbyterian church
by members Of the congregation. TIE
couple have just returned from pleasant
bridal tour through the east, and the parish
oners Of the beloved pastor and the friend:
Of his wife, nee Miss Lulu McCabe, assembled
to give both hearty welcome.
/ Loving hands had tastefully and neatly
decorated the interior of the church. The
posts in the rear were covered with spruce
green wrapped the chandeliers, and in front
Of the altar had been erected an arch OF
green from the center of which was sus
pended the word, "Welcome," in golden let
tiers. Two seats, in the midst Of beds OF
flowers, were placed upon the altar to be oc-
cupied by the honored ones Of the occasion.
After music by the church choir, prayer
was offered by the Rev. e. j. Brown. Rev.
Hamilton then introduced Hon. Rodolph
Hatfield, who, in a few well chosen and
highly appropriate remarks, extended in be-
half of the congregation hearty address of
welcome to the pastor and his bride.
After he had taken his seat Col. Lewis
arose and in the following poem presented
to them an elegant Haviland French china
set Of 135 pieces:
Your friends in the church and around in the
city,
| By common consent have made committee
To express their esteem and hearty good
wishes,
By firing at you this big lot of dishes.
In your travels of late, | suppose you have
saw, sir,
Many beautiful things: but / fancy, this
Filled up to the brim with your peoples af-
fections
More welcome than most of your recent in
spections.
But here we have saucers, and tea cups and
caters
Dishes for soup, for beans and ''tomaters:
Dishes for gravey, for pickles and kraut,
Dishes for turky, for oysters and trout;
Dishes for salad and sweet succotash,
Dishes for beef steak and dishes for hash,
Dishes for yams, and the festive potato,
Dishes whose use would puzzle Plato,
And all Of these dishes, though empty they
seem,
We want you to know are filled up to the
brim
With the warm flowing love of each donor,
whose heart,
By these simple tokens, its warmth would
impart
Perhaps such a spread isn't much of feast
TO couple just in from the beautiful east,
Where bluefish, and Holsters, and oysters,
and clans,
Have danced on your plates like frisky spring
lambs.
But if you don't like it. you may, if you
please,
Live on Farjeon's Bread, and Kifses, and
Cheese
And now, in the name of the whole congre
cation,
l pitch at your heads, in your great conster
nation,
Like shower of rocks, from the summit of
Sinai,
These hundred and twenty-five pieces of
China.
Rev. Hewitt arose and in reply said: II |
have not, as Mr.. Hatfield remarked, always |
been in favor of womans right, but / think |
| am getting over to that side fast. This is
the second time that as pastor of this people
have been taken unawares. Now as to the
preceding occasion, when you gave me this
beautiful watch, l am speeches.. When |
your kindnesses to me, .and can
not remember them ALL and when think Of |
great and higher things before us; then my
coming home fills me with joy to find you al
most all here that left
1--WE thank you for these beautiful pres
ents; we thank you and then turn our faces
to the future. All are but preparation for i
the future. When the great marriage supper
if we have been faithful to the
charge entrusted to US, the doors viii be
thrown wide open and we be invited to en-
Ter. Let everything be abandoned to the
work of sending abroad the gospel, to doing
good and to living we'll
In conclusion he said: eve must TO work.
There is much to be done, and what the
church does she must do quickly. There is
much good aud bad seed that has been sown
,ogether We will both be willing to subord-
nate all our personal matters to the glory of
saving souls Again we thank you for your
-
After another song those present were
invited to come forward and meet personally
,he pastor and his wife. The church was
we'll filed with people, mostly members of
he congregation, and they all willingly &C
,epted this invitation. Ice cream, cakes and
were afterwards served by the
aides of the church.
And thus pleasantly, in kind greetings and
words Of sympathy and encouragement the
line passed: the minister received new hope
or his future work; and his charming COM
,anion winning the affection of the generous
congregation was fully installed Mistress of
he manse